Another year closer to forty then...

Yeah, me too.

 

And a kerb weight of 2.2 tonnes. Slow doesn't begin to describe it.
DAMHIK ...

 

OK, i'll take "not necessarily" - I've certainly experienced it,
though.

 

worse, a Seat

 

Heh. The Dago Daewoo.

 

It's the only way I know.

 

But great fun in exactly the conditions where a bike isn't.

 

i don't know, bikes can be fun on ice too. you just need the right tyres.

 

Why would I? Nobody else seems to.

 

speaking of which, the contestants for this:

http://www.zaniroli.com/yacs/section-4049

have just started assembling outside the office here - some very
impressive looking trucks, including a couple of those "I am a driving
god!" heavily modified landrovers.

 

a French desert-racing fan, one assumes.

 

I had a go in one of those Bowler Landies in some quarry a while
back. Quite entertaining.

 

Not as fucking groovy as my car, it isn't. Morris Minors are proper
groovy, in a slow sort of way.

 

Hog says...

You and I know that, but Ogden's possible future buying audience may
not. High mileage hits values of bikes quite hard, for archaich reasons
going back to when even a Japanese bike was only good for 30K miles.

--
Lozzo
Triumph Daytona 955i SE
Suzuki SV650 K3
Honda CBR600 F-W
Suzuki GSX-R750L
Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka

 

Which, to be fair, was about twice as long as most of the brit-iron
around at the time would last between rebuilds...

--
_______
..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (bdotrogers a.t compaqnet.fr)
\`\ | /`/ DS#8 BOTAFOT#3 SbS#2 UKRMMA#13 DFV#8 SKA#2 IBB#10
`\\ | //'
`\|/`
`

 

7.57 for me. Phew; I thought the dead ones would increase it
substantially.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

Quite. Because there are so many people buying bikes but not actually
riding them, the market is awash with ridiculously low mileage examples
and anything with more than 2k/year on the clock is going to not just
suffer at resale time, but actually be harder to sell at all unless
significantly discounted.

The ideal situation for me is to buy a bike that's slightly underpriced
and has below-average mileage on the clock, ride it until it the mileage
has caught up with the age, and then sell it on for a reasonable price.

Of course, the reality is buying a ten-year-old stroker, riding it for a
weekend, and finding it won't start after that. Ain't life grand!?
<makes note to get out into garage at the weekend and work out wtf is
going on>